project hail mary

Adrian and Grace are still getting used to each other, I like the idea of Rocky and Grace already having an established dynamic, one that Adrian is perfectly okay with of course but she’s still warming up to Grace themself. And unexpectedly they start to have interest in getting closer.

“so how long have you been with your mate?”

“century.”

“thats a long time bud.”

“is not enough.”

However, when the eridians in Erid (Rocky has a long time to aclimate) realize that they were able to "see" Grace's the stomach and intestines, they had to create a special material or clothes to cover that, because eating is very taboo for the Eridians and they are "seeing" Grace process all his food (how inaporpiate!). They can hear him chew, and swallow and how the food goes all the way to his stomach and intestines. They can't let his savior been showing his disgestive system around!

Extra:

Grace finds photos of himself and shows it to Rocky (in the movie verse Rocky can use his little machine that helps him translate images to frequencies he can percive/ in the book verse maybe Grace has a 3D printer and Grace makes a version of the picutres with texture on it so Rocky can detailed it.) and that would be the first time that Rocky can really see Grace face and body as is suppose to be.

Extra Extra:

Rocky having to show the photos to the other Eridians scientits because they were picturing Grace (and humans in general) as we pictured dinosaurs just putting skin over their bones and they had got many things wrong.

Thanks to that photo they would have a clear idea of:

What and how eyes are.

What hair is (they knew that hair, but they didn't know what "hair" was, they were trying to guess its fuction.)

They would learn how the body actually is percived by other humans, and discover that they weren't "seeing" Grace, but "seeing" the componets of Grace.

Extra + Adrian:

Adrian who had been humillated for writing a essay (or presenting in a thrum a theory) about how life forms could have evolved without a carapace and how having squishy bodies could be result of another kind of evolution in a living form that has systems that doesn't work out of steam, it is the happiest eridian in Erid when Rocky presents his alien best friend that help him save the stars.

The alien has not only return to them their mate, but they have also gain them back the respect of the scientists community and maybe a prize or two.

of course grace is delighted! but it'd be very funny if rocky had just. a massively specific regional accent. and now grace has it too. all the eridians from that area are like OMG THE ALIEN IS ONE OF US - we're adopting it. that's an honorary member of the clan. listen to it. it might as well have grown up here.

...actually i'm gonna do it. fuck it. rocky is space scottish. to me. he's mine now, i'm taking him out to look at the kelpies and the falkirk wheel and climb up ben ledi. he can go fishing in a loch. and now grace's eridian accent is their equivalent of scots. he says stuff to adrian's family (posh motherfuckers) and theyre like 'i think it's trying to communicate with us..?' meanwhile adrian, well used to rocky's accent by now, is like 'it's giving you a compliment. be nice to my spouse's alien, please.'

Sillies. Adrian deserves Grace pats too!!

Full page down below :))